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I wouldn’t touch a recoil tube not designed for the M4… I would suggest modifying the furniture instead.

As always, another fine effort in the quest for the sublime M4 setup SD. One thing that I don't like about this hand guard setup is the sling attachment to the very end of it. It just seems to me that the constant pulling and torquing on the swivel attachment from slinging on and off and general use, especially with the added weight of a full magazine will lead to problems. Do you think that it will hold up? The issue of barrel shadowing is not very important to me. It still seems to me that there is too much given up here (as you have laid out in the negatives summary), with this iteration of hand guard just to mitigate the barrel shadowing issue. BTW, what is that colorful barrel attachment you have on there?

This is the traditional right handed user setup for the Modlites. The body bolts directly to the IWC Benelli M4 weapon light mount. I machined the tailcaps down to remove the shroud so there is less to jam my thumb on under recoil. I just haven't bothered to paint them yet. This is an experimental setup I started trying earlier this year to address several areas I didn't like when using the IWC mount. Mainly getting the light closer to the muzzle to eliminate barrel shadowing and to address jamming my thumb during momentary operations. Recoil is brutal on a 12 gauge when your thumb is riding the momentary button. I almost never use a constant on click of the light. The negatives: So I've been experimenting with the 15" Mesa Tactical Truckee rail. Overall, I hate the rail's attachment system to the barrel assembly. The fact that you have to remove your MLOK mounted items in order to get the rail off of the barrel assembly to access your ARGO system is retarded. So if you're going thru the process of applying thread locker to your attached items, you're going to have to redo that every single time you want to clean the gas system. Dumb. The texture of the rail is way too smooth. Adding rail covers adds to your pain in the ass of taking the thing off of the barrel assembly. So if you plan to use any, you'll want some kind that just pops on like BCM covers. The ergonomics are crap compared to the OEM handguard, particularly a stippled set. The positives: When the weapon light is attached with an offset Arisaka mount, it puts the weapon light in the perfect position. It's held tight to the rail and fills the space between the barrel and the magazine tube nicely so the light isn't hanging off the side of the weapon like a wall wart that tends to catch on everything. I did have to modify the rail to permit the Arisaka mount to fit the rail's profile. In the top down shot, you can see how I cut the rail away as compared to the opposite side. I hate tape switches and generally refuse to use them. I hate that they tend to snag on gear and the wire is easily damaged. I hate the tactile feel of a standard pressure pad where the light activation isn't always 100%. Then I bought the Unity Tactical HotButton. These eliminate the terrible feeling of the activation pad. This feels more like the button of a tailcap. Not only do you have momentary, but you can click it to lock the light on if needed. With the HotButton, you can orientate the switch with the button facing forward or rearward. I found facing the button forward was a significant improvement in ergonomics. No longer is your thumb in danger of getting racked during recoil. It's also much easier to pull your thumb rearward to activate the button than to reach forward to hit the button. I routed the wire thru the rail so that the wire has almost no exposure. This only works on a Benelli since it doesn't get hot enough inside there to damage the wire. You could never do this on say an AR15. I bored a hole thru the MLOK attachment points so that I could slip the 1/2" plug thru the rail. The HotButton has a cool feature where you can route the wire downward so the wire isn't exposed at all. So the wire actually goes thru the MLOK that the button is mounted to. Only a minimal amount exposes from the rail connecting to the weapon light. While the ergonomics of the rail kind of suck, the 15" long rail does have a positive aspect. You aren't limited to the short handguard of the OEM rail. I prefer to hold the shotgun a little farther forward than the OEM handguards permit. I do like the option of using a MLOK QD sling mount and pushing it all the way forward. In my case I'm using a Railscales MLOK QD socket.

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